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Finally I gave my GMAT Test today and I can happily say that my target has been achieved. My aim since I started the preparation was to get a 700+ so score of 710 is quiet satisfactory specially when the only time I could find to study was weekends. I would sincerely like to thank all of you here for your help specially jallen, durgesh, spriya, suresh for all your help and discussions.

I also got 6.0 in AWA.

Quant Preparation:-Due to my engineering background, Quant was never a problem for me. All I ever wanted to do was to brush up my maths fundamentals again and learn the nuances of solving GMAT problems. OG11 gave clarity about contents of maths and also clarified some fundamentals which I had forgotten. GMAT club quant. tests were the ones who really gave the final polish to my quant skills for GMAT. I was able to control the time spent on each question and more importantly apply my mind in the direction of GMAT. The small things like reading questions carefully, ensuring that you apply fractions, -ve numbers, zero and positive numbers to inequality data sufficiency problems , combination/permutation problems, work problems etc. were all cleared up by giving these tests. The other thing which I always tried to do was to try finishing Quant test in 65 mins. This really helped me gain speed.

Verbal Preparation:-Verbal was always going to be tough for me since I am non-native English speaker. When I started with verbal preparation I was weak in SC . The discussions on gmat club really helped me improve my SC steadily. RC and CR were fine to me and I never really paid attention to improving them except solving the questions in OG11 and couple of hundred questions of CR1000. Manhattan GMAT SC guide really helped me in improving my SC. I think it is must for everyone to go through the book and try reading it as many times as you can. I also solved half of SC1000 questions to gain more practice.

Exam Day:-I got up at 6:30 am today morning since I had Test appointment at 9:00am. Slept pretty well and all the nervousness which was there yesterday had disappeared. This helped me in staying calm and just to focus on Test ahead.

Argument essay was about software and I did it with help of AWA template provided by chineseburned (1-t64327). Analysis essay was on business practices and I was again able to do it within time very easily , again with help of templates. Just going through these templates a day before exam really helped me in my speed. Quant was very easy to start with and I had finished first 10 Qs in no time at all. Then the difficulty level got raised and I encountered couple of tough work problems and data sufficiency problems. I skipped one or two questions since they were taking too much time and moved on. At end I was easily able to finish the quant with ~5 mins left. Then I took my regular break to relax myself. I knew I had done well so really didnt want to screq up in verbal. Verbal started off with couple of easy SCs, an easy CR question and then a long RC. I didnt have problem with them to start with and I was keeping ahead of time. Then started the tough part with some SCs which I think I screwed up but RCs I encountered were quiet easy. With 10 mins left I had last 5 Qs of verbal left and somehow my brain started to freeze. I encountered 1 tough SC and 3 tough CRs and this is where I think the verbal score went downwards. The last question was another SC which took me 3 mins and I dont think I got it right either. After filling up the usual stuff I finally got my score of 710. I was reasonably happy to see 700+ score.

Once again thanks to everyone and good luck to future aspirants of GMAT. Do let me know if you have any questions

Cheers

Last edited by nmohindru on 12 Dec 2008, 09:41, edited 2 times in total.

Finally I gave my GMAT Test today and I can happily say that my target has been achieved. My aim since I started the preparation was to get a 700+ so score of 710 is quiet satisfactory specially when the only time I could find to study was weekends. I would sincerely like to thank all of you here for your help specially jallen, durgesh, spriya, suresh for all your help and discussions.

Quant Preparation:-Due to my engineering background, Quant was never a problem for me. All I ever wanted to do was to brush up my maths fundamentals again and learn the nuances of solving GMAT problems. OG11 gave clarity about contents of maths and also clarified some fundamentals which I had forgotten. GMAT club quant. tests were the ones who really gave the final polish to my quant skills for GMAT. I was able to control the time spent on each question and more importantly apply my mind in the direction of GMAT. The small things like reading questions carefully, ensuring that you apply fractions, -ve numbers, zero and positive numbers to inequality data sufficiency problems , combination/permutation problems, work problems etc. were all cleared up by giving these tests. The other thing which I always tried to do was to try finishing Quant test in 65 mins. This really helped me gain speed.

Verbal Preparation:-Verbal was always going to be tough for me since I am non-native English speaker. When I started with verbal preparation I was weak in SC . The discussions on gmat club really helped me improve my SC steadily. RC and CR were fine to me and I never really paid attention to improving them except solving the questions in OG11 and couple of hundred questions of CR1000. Manhattan GMAT SC guide really helped me in improving my SC. I think it is must for everyone to go through the book and try reading it as many times as you can. I also solved half of SC1000 questions to gain more practice.

Exam Day:-I got up at 6:30 am today morning since I had Test appointment at 9:00am. Slept pretty well and all the nervousness which was there yesterday had disappeared. This helped me in staying calm and just to focus on Test ahead.

Argument essay was about software and I did it with help of AWA template provided by chineseburned (1-t64327). Analysis essay was on business practices and I was again able to do it within time very easily , again with help of templates. Just going through these templates a day before exam really helped me in my speed. Quant was very easy to start with and I had finished first 10 Qs in no time at all. Then the difficulty level got raised and I encountered couple of tough work problems and data sufficiency problems. I skipped one or two questions since they were taking too much time and moved on. At end I was easily able to finish the quant with ~5 mins left. Then I took my regular break to relax myself. I knew I had done well so really didnt want to screq up in verbal. Verbal started off with couple of easy SCs, an easy CR question and then a long RC. I didnt have problem with them to start with and I was keeping ahead of time. Then started the tough part with some SCs which I think I screwed up but RCs I encountered were quiet easy. With 10 mins left I had last 5 Qs of verbal left and somehow my brain started to freeze. I encountered 1 tough SC and 3 tough CRs and this is where I think the verbal score went downwards. The last question was another SC which took me 3 mins and I dont think I got it right either. After filling up the usual stuff I finally got my score of 710. I was reasonably happy to see 700+ score.

Once again thanks to everyone and good luck to future aspirants of GMAT. Do let me know if you have any questions